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An undated compilation of observations made between January 1679 and December 1680, with solar and planetary tables, 24-30 March 1710, and calculations dating mainly from July 1713, 82 folios. The volume includes lunar observations (1r-27v) and a reference to a visit by Ole Rømer (6r). The writing is mostly in Flamsteed's hand, and the tables in that of Joseph Crosthwait.

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First notes of observations with the mural arc, 2 January 1712 - 27 December 1719, in the hands of Joseph Crosthwait and Flamsteed, 191 folios. The volume includes data from William Derham, Stephen Gray, and Matthew Wright (5r, 14v, 43r), notes relating to engraving and printing (182r-188r), and accounts of the aurora borealis (40r, 186v).

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'Apographa' ('Exact copies'), third part: 'Observationes Britan-nicae Regiae' made between January 1704 and November 1715, mainly in Joseph Crosthwait's hand, 131 folios. The volume includes biographical notes (front board to 2r), and eclipse and other data obtained from Stephen Gray, Abraham Sharp and William Derham (passim).

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Observations in the hands of James Hodgson and Joseph Crosthwait.

Scope and Contents An untitled book of planetary and solar observations and calculations, 93 folios, including a copy of observations for 1679-1680 (3r-23r), a few observations of Jupiter's satellites (92v), and indexes to the planetary work (1r, 91r and inside the front cover). The writing is mostly in Joseph Crosthwait's hand, but also features those of Flamsteed, Isaac Wolferman and possibly John Witty. There are dates from 5 December 1705 to 15 April 1713, although the observations may be earlier than...

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Lunar, planetary and stellar data of 1475-1709, and calculations by Isaac Wolferman and Joseph Crosthwait, with notes and additions by Flamsteed, 382 folios (foliated continuously).

Scope and Contents Copies of star catalogues: 'Claudi Ptolemai Regularis dispositio Constellationum...' ('Claudius Ptolemy's regular disposition of constellations or catalogue of fixed stars, translated from Greek into Latin, amended ... by comparison with an Oxford manuscript and with the versions of Trapezuntius, Gauricus, Copernicus and Clavius, and also with the catalogue of Ulug Beigh, of Tycho Brahe, and the heavens themselves. The work of John Flamsteed, M. R. With the additional Greek and Roman...

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Three notebooks and three loose sheets of stellar positions, mostly undated, in the hands of Flamsteed, James Hodgson and Joseph Crosthwait, 92 folios (foliated continuously).